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Fire in the Pines Archive
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Five Killed, Many Injured in Greatest Forest Fires in the History of Two Counties
Posted on February 28, 2008 | No CommentsMore Than 20,000 Acres Involved in Four-Day Conflagration in the Area from Chatsworth to Tuckerton and Manahawkin–2,000 Men Fought Fire / Men Were Trapped While Fighting In one of the... -
Fighting Fire in Waterford – Sept. 16, 1895
Posted on February 28, 2008 | No CommentsFIGHTING FIRE IN WATERFORD Thousands of Acres of Cedar Swamps Ablaze Cranberry Bogs Destroyed A Gallop for Life. WATERFORD, N. J., Sept. 15.— A terrific fire is destroying thousands of... -
Forest Fires In New Jersey – An Evil Which the State Seeks to Remedy by Legislation – Sept 17, 1894
Posted on February 28, 2008 | No CommentsTRENTON, N.J., Sept 16. – New Jersey has just reason to be alarmed about forest fires, for she now has 1,300,000 acres of land remaining in forests in what is... -
An Ocean County Forest Fire
Posted on February 28, 2008 | No CommentsThe following is reprinted from “A History of Monmouth and Ocean County” by Edwin Salter. Fires have been so frequent in the extensive forests of Ocean County, that it is...